Diving, snorkelling and recreational water activities resources
Information and guidance materials including multilingual publications, videos, guides, forms and templates, and checklists relating to diving, snorkelling and recreational water activities.
Safety information for divers and snorkellers guide
- English (Includes all non-English languages as listed below) (PDF, 5.49 MB)
- English only (PDF, 2.86 MB)
- Chinese (simplified) (PDF, 3.18 MB)
- Chinese (traditional) (PDF, 3.25 MB)
- French (PDF, 3.05 MB)
- German (PDF, 3.04 MB)
- Hindi (PDF, 2.91 MB)
- Italian (PDF, 3.02 MB)
- Japanese (PDF, 3.11 MB)
- Korean (PDF, 2.17 MB)
- Malay (PDF, 2.91 MB)
- Portuguese (PDF, 2.89 MB)
- Russian (PDF, 3.06 MB)
- Spanish (PDF, 3.03 MB)
- Swedish (PDF, 3.03 MB)
- Vietnamese (PDF, 3.08 MB)
Videos
- Effective lookouts – monitoring divers and snorkellers effectively
- Managing the risk of cardiac death – preventing cardiac-related incidents by identifying at-risk recreational divers and snorkellers
- Snorkelling sense – this video can be incorporated into the safety briefing to help engage passengers and reinforce key snorkelling safety messages.
- Supervising non-certified divers – techniques to prevent divers becoming separated while underwater.
Guides
- Snorkel safety: a guide for workers (PDF, 3.3 MB)
Examples, templates and forms
- Certificated diver risk management template (DOC, 0.09 MB)
- Appendix 1 – Example records for a count of persons form NEW (DOCX, 0.02 MB)
- Appendix 2 – Example method of providing advice on medical conditions to snorkellers form NEW (DOCX, 0.02 MB)
- Appendix 3 – Example declaration form for an at risk snorkeller NEW (DOCX, 0.02 MB)
- Appendix 4 – Example environmental dive site and in-water risk assessment form NEW (DOCX, 0.02 MB)
- Appendix 5 – Example risk assessment to determine lookouts and supervision form NEW (DOC, 0.09 MB)
- Appendix 6 – Example combined dive site lookout and supervision form NEW (DOCX, 0.02 MB)
Checklists
- Recreational diving and snorkelling compliance checklist NEW (DOC, 0.99 MB)
- Recreational snorkelling compliance checklist NEW (DOC, 0.11 MB)
Medical declarations
- Medical declaration for non-certified diving NEW (PDF, 0.23 MB)
- Diver Medical Participant questionnaire NEW (for entry level certificate diving) (PDF, 0.76 MB)
- Recreational Diving Medical Screening System information (for entry level certificate diving)NEW
Legislation
- Relevant Acts, regulations and codes of practice are discussed under diving and snorkelling laws